CTC - or Comfort the Children - began as a friendship between two men, Zane Wilemon and Jeremiah Kuria, and continues on as a friendship between Austin, Texas and the community of Maai Mahiu, Kenya. In 2000, Wilemon and Kuria worked together to build a school and better the Maai Mahiu Children's Home (orphanage). Huria, a local pastor and the former Director of the Children's Home, and Wilemon, realized that in order to better the lives of Maai Mahiu the surrounding areas needed aid as well.
Read MoreThe Art and Danger of Fire Spinning
Published at Culturemap Austin.
Excerpt:
Sage Jacote was 27 years old when she was invited to a show-and-tell party in East Austin. Everybody was bringing something to share; poets and musicians dominated the party until the host asked the guests to move to the backyard.
As the partygoers filtered through the back door, a traveling woman with two poi — weighted balls of Kevlar, each on the end of a chain with a handle — lit them on fire and began swinging them around in different patterns as she danced.
Jacote was “mesmerized and freaked out.” She just had to try this herself.
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Book "On Breathing & Long-Distance" Self-Published through Lulu.com
My first self-published book of poetry On Breathing & Long-Distance is now for sale here!
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